Service Type:
Homemaker Personal Care & Homemaker Personal Care Transportation
Time of Day:
Morning, Afternoon, Evening, Night
Schedule Notes
24/7 supports outside of time spent at her ADS program. She attends her day program five days a week and there are no other planned/routine times spent away from her home. She lives with one other roommate who is also looking for a new waiver provider. So the selected new provider will be supporting BOTH individuals in the home. At this time, they only share overnight OSOC services. All other supports right now are 1:1, BUT could eventually share waiver services as plans are made. The future plan/goal is to share additional HPC waiver services with her roommate each week.
Age of Individual:
20-39 years old
Gender of Individual:
Female
Gender of Provider:
Prefers Female Staff
Area of Assistance and Assessed needs per outcome:
Assessed needs: daily total physical support with eating, bathing, dressing, laundry, keeping all living areas clean and helping maintain any personal items. Total support with preparing food, eating, and cleaning up after meals. She uses a wheelchair at all times and needs total physical support getting in and out of her chair, with transfers, and with transportation. Some assistance for transportation to medical appointments may be needed and coordination with family/guardian to meet at medical appointments. Having a wheelchair accessible vehicle is preferred. She has a communication device and is supported by her staff to utilize it to communicate with others. Support is needed for making purchases, and planning community activities.
Best ways to communicate with the individual:
She has a great sense of humor and a great personality. Speaking to her, she understands what is said to her. You can communicate by showing her. She can use a picture board, or sensory apps on her communication device. She can answer yes and no questions, and also expresses herself by laughing and with facial cues. Staff and family support the individual to communicate. They also see that her communication device is working properly. She does not use words to communicate, so she is supported to express herself in ways that others can understand. She continually works to improve her communication skills by all around, expressing herself more. This helps in finding new interests to explore.
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